Button.



I. HEINEMAN.

BUTTON. APPLICATION FILED AUG.I6, I9I6.

Patented June 12, 1917.

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BUTTON.

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Application filed August 16, 1918}. Serial Ito. mama.

in Buttons, of which the following is a full,

clear, and exact description.

One of the objects of my invention 1s to provide a novel construction of button and means whereby the same may be readily and quickly attached, without stitching, to a garment or other article on which it is to be used, and maybe as readily detached therefrom.

The invention consists of a button and a keeper, one of said parts comprising a plate having a plurality of arcuate slots therein with enlarged entrance openings, and the otherof said parts having a plurality of projections thereon adapted to fit within said slots and provided with shoulders adapted to engage the inner surface of said plate adjacent the surfaces of said slots.

The invention also consists in certain features and details of construction and combinations of parts, which will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawing,

Figure 1 is a bottom plan view of a button embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 is a sectlonal view showing the button and its keeper combined and held in looking relation to each other on a strip of fabric Fig. 3' is a plan view of the keeper;

Figs. 4 and 5 are detail views of a modified form of keeper;

Fig. 6 is a sectional view of a portiopof a modified form of button, such as will be employed in connection with the keeper; of Figs. 4 and 5;

liig. 7 is a bottom'plan view of the same, an

Fig. 8 is a detail, perspective view of another modified form of keeper.

The body 1 of my improved button may have any shape or configuration of head or exterior surface,"but is provided with a metallic base plate 2, formed with the usual hub 3 thereon. Cutin this base plate,'preferably within the hub 3, are the arcuate slots 4, 5, the side edges of each slot being parallel, and formed upon the arcs of circles concentric with the circular base plate 2. The end of theslot 4 is enlarged, as at 6, and the end i of the slot 5 is enlarged, as at 7, to provide entrance openings into said slots. After the slots 4 and 5 are produced in the base plate" 2,'the material of said plate on each side of each slot is pressed, or otherwise shaped, to form the inclined or cam surfaces 8. The surface 8 along the slot 4 gradually rises, or approaches the top of the button, from the entrance opening 6 toward'the opposite end of said slot. Similarly, the surface 8 along the slot 5 gradually rises, or approaches the top of the button, from the entrance opening 7 toward the opposite end of said slot. To produce the inclined or cam surfaces 8 the metal of the plate 2 on each side of each of the slots 4 and 5, is arched inwardly toward the body of the button. At the ends of the slots 4 and 5, however, opposite the entrance openings 6 and 7, respectively, the metal of the plate 2 on each sideof each of said slots, is reversely or outwardly curved, forming a pocket 9 at the end of the slot 4 and a pocket 10 at the end of the slot 5. These pockets 9 and 10 act as interlocking means between the button and as keeper, as will presently appear.

The keeper comprises a base and a plurality of laterally extending pins or proj e'ctions thereon, each provided with a shoulder near its end. The form of keeper illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings consist of a disk 11, and two pins or projections 12 secured thereto and extending outwardly therefrom, each of said pins being preferably pointed so that it may be readily forced through the material of the garment to which the button is to be applied. Each of said pins or projections is also provided, near its outer end, with a shoulder 13. The distance between the pins or projections 12 corresponds with the radial distance between the centers of the slots 4 and 5. The heads of said pins formed by the shoulders 13 correspond in diameter with the entrance openings 6 and 7, but are greater in diameter than the slots 4 and 5 themselves.

To apply my improved device, the pins or projections 12 on the keeper are forced through the material 14 of the garment'at the location where the button is to be at tached, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawing. The disk 11 is moved into close contact with the inner surface of the material 14 so that the heads or shouldered portions of the pins ner surfaces 8 of said plate along the sides I ;of the slots Land '5, with the shanks of said pins projecting'through said slots. The surfaces 8 being inclined, the continuediurning movement of the button with respect to its keeper, will force said button and keeper closer and closer toward each other, and in tighter and tighter engagement with the material 14- between them. This action continues until the pins or projections 12 reach the opposite ends of the slots 4 and 5, when the shoulders 13 on said pins or projections slip into the pockets 9 and 10, when turning movement of the button with respect to its keeper, in either direction, is resisted. The pockets or recessed portions, 9 and 10 co-' operate with the headed ends of the pins or projections 12 to hold the two artsof the device in interlocking relation so that the button is held firmly in place on the garment and is practically incapable of accidental removal. When it is desired to remove the button, however, it is merelynecessary to turn the head thereof in the direction opposite that just described, with sufficient force to overcome the frictional engagement of the shoulders 13 with the side walls of the pockets 9 and 10, and continue this turning movement until the pins or projections 12 come opposite the entrance openings 6 and 7, when the button may be slipped away from the keeper.

In order to compensate for variations, in the thickness of the material to which my improved button may be applied, so that the .two parts of the device may be held in close frictional engagement with the opposite sides of the material, I make the surface of the keeper which engages the material so that it is capable of yielding. One way of accomplishing this result is to form the spring tongues 15 in the disk 11, the said" tongues being cut from thematerial of said disk and sprung upwardly so as to extend beyond the plane of the disk. By the use of these tongues, the two parts of the device may be held in close frictional engagement with materials of varying thicknesses to which the button may be applied.

In Figs. 4 and 5 of the drawing, a modie fied form of keeper is illustrated. In this construction, all the parts of the keeper are integral. That is to say, the pins or projections 12 are cut from the sheet metal of which the disk 11 is made,-and are afterward folded up at right angles to the disk 11, as shown in Fig. 5. The shanks of fication of the keeper is illustrated.

aaaeaea these projections between the shoulders 13 and the disk 11 are preferably curled, as shown at 16, for strengthening purposes, and the heads of the projections 12 are preferably given a quarter turn, as shown inFig. 5, so that the shoulders 13 may be properly presented to the base plate of the button at right angles to the slots therein.

In Figs. 6 and 7, a slightly modified construction of base plate 2 is shown, the same being that which will be employed in connection' with the modified form of keeper shown in Figs. 4 and 5. It differs from the base plate of Figs. 1 and 2 merely in the and in the shape of the pockets 9 and 10 at the opposite ends of the two slots 4 and 5".

In Fig. 8 of the. drawing, another modi- In this form, the ,headed projections on the keeper correspond with those shown in Figs. 1 and 5 of the drawings, but instead of having a disk-shaped base with projecting tongues 15 thereon, the base 11 is of substantially the same width as the headed projections 12 on the ends thereof and said base 11 is slightly arched so as to produce the spring or resilient action of the tongues 15.

I claim:

1. The combination of a button. and a keeper therefor, one of said parts comprising a plate having a plurality of arcuate slots therein with enlarged entrance open ings, and having inclined surfaces extending along said slots above the plane of said having shoulders thereon adapted to engage said inclined surfaces for drawing said parts toward each other when one of them is turned.

2.'The combination of a button and, a keeper therefor, one of said parts comprising a plate having a plurality of arcuate slots therein with enlarged entrance open-' ings, and having inclined surfaces extending along said slots above the plane of said plate, and the other of-said parts having a plurality of projections thereon adapted to fit within said slots, the said pro ections having shoulders thereon adapted to engage said inclined surfaces for drawin said parts toward each other when one 0% them is turned, and means engaging said projections for resisting the turning movement of said parts.

. 3. The combination of a button and a keeper therefor, one of said parts comprising a plate having a plurality of arcuate slots therein with enlarged entrance openyielding base and a lurality of projections thereon adapted to fit within said slots, the said projections having shoulders thereon adapted to engage said inclined surfaces for drawin sald parts toward each other when one 0 them is turned.

4. The combination of a .button and a keeper therefor, one of said parts'comprising a plate having a plurality of slotstherein, and having inclined surfaces extending along the length of said slots above the plane of said plate, and the other of said parts having a plurality of headed projections thereon adapted to fit within said slots, the said projections having shoulders thereon adapted to engage the inclined-or cam surfaces on said plate. i

5. The combination of a button and akeeper therefor, one of said parts comprising a plate having a plurality of slots therein, the surface of the plate being inclined along the length of and on opposite sides of said slots, and the other of said parts having a plurality of headed projections thereon adapted to fit within said slots, the said projections having shoulders thereon adapted to engage the inclined or cam surfaces on said plate, and means for locking the projections in said slots.

6. The combination of a button and a keeper therefor, one of said parts com rising a plate having a plurality of slots t erein, the surface of the plate being inclined along the length of and on opposite sides of said slots, and the other of said parts com prising a base having a yielding surface and provided with a luralit of headed projections adapted to t within said slots,

the said projections having shoulders thereon adapted to en age the inclined or camsurfaces on said p ate.

7. The combination with a button comprising a plate having1 a plurality of concentric arcuate slots t erem, the said slots having enlarged entrance openings, and the surface of the plate being inclined along the length of and on opposite sides of said slots, of a keeper having headed projections thereon adapted. to pass through said entrance openmgs, the said projections having shoulders thereon adapted to engage till i 'and ride upon the inclined surfaces ofsaid rplate.

8. The combination with a button comprising a plate having a plurality of concentric arcuate slots therein, the said slots having enlarged entrance openings, and the surface of the plate being inclined along the length of and on opposite sides of said slots, of a keeper having headed projections thereon adapted to pass through said entrance 0penings,-the said projections having shoulders thereon adapted to engage and ride upon the inclined surfaces of said plate, and means for locking said projections in said slots.

9. The combination with a button comprising a plate having a plurality of concentrio arcuate slots therein, the said slots having enlarged entrance openings, and the surface of the plate being inclined alongthe length of each of said slots and provided with pockets or depressions at the ends of the slots opposite their respective entrance openings, of a keeper having headed projections thereon adapted to said entrance openings, the said projections having shoulders thereon adapted" to engage and r1de upon the inclined surfaces of said plate and to fit within said pockets, as and or the purpose set forth. V

10. The combiirliation withl a hiut nf comprising a plate am a ma ty 0 concentric arcuate slots tliereih, the said slots having enlarged entrance openings, and the pass through 'in shou ders thereon adapted to engage and ri e upon the inclined surfaces of said plate, and means for Ice the button and keeper against relative turmn movement.

In witness whereof, subscribe my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

I JOSEPH HEINEN. Witnessesz WM. M. Srooxnen,

WALDO M. C 

